Danpbphoto wrote: Douglas L wrote:
This was my second visit to Zhangjiajie National Park in NW Hunan Province, where the movie "Avatar" was film. To make a long story short, it was rainy, foggy, hazy most of the time but when the rain stopped, the magic appeared. The B&W shots were actually taken with an infrared camera.
Thanks for looking!
Douglas
Just beautiful Douglas! Your photography is "top shelf" no matter WHAT the subject is!!!
How was it to return to your birthplace? Has China changed much since you left? The people? Is America still the "enemy"?
Again SUPER photography!
Dan
Thank you Dan! I have been back to China many times since I left 35 years ago. It's a totally different country. Parts of it are so modern that they rival any cities in the West. Their subways, high speed trains, roads, airports, bridges, and cell phone signal certainly put anything we have here to shame. But it's still a commie country where the government controls the media, lots of brain washing and propaganda, sadly the US is moving to that direction, IMHO. The CCP has always considered the U.S. its enemy, all U.S. presidents, from Nixon to Obama, had very naive view/dream on China, they thought China would change as it opened up. They raised a tiger cub that can bite. Whenever I turned on their TV, which was very rare, alI you see is how great China is and how bad the U.S. is, yet their rich people and officials are sending their kids to the US to be educated.
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It is sad Douglas. I have met and known MANY Chinese citizens and they had nothing but respect for Americans. Yes the CCP is totally different.
I ran into that mentality in Vietnam many times and on my job as a "fed".
Glad you made it here!! Yes this Country is undergoing a very lengthy and radical "revision" until it is stopped!!
Again FANTASTIC photography!!
Dan
Oct 08, 2024 at 10:51 AM
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